Anna Jean (A. J.) Mayhew
Anna Jean (A.J.) Mayhew writes from her vivid memories of growing up in the segregated South. Her debut novel, The Dry Grass of August, won the prestigious Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Society, joining past winners Lee Smith and Reynolds Price. The novel is also a 2011 Okra Pick of Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance and a candidate for the New Writers Award of the Great Lakes Colleges Association. Mayhew is currently working on her second novel, Tomorrow’s Bread.